Revistas biomédicas: desarrollo y evolución

Biomedical journals were born as an expression of the need to communicate advances in the field of medicine and research. Since its inception, they have been the main channel of communication and knowledge transfer and their number has been increasing in parallel with the development and advances in the health sciences. The growing scientific production has made necessary the elaboration of bibliographic repertories to organize the search and retrieval of information efficiently and the creation of indicators to measure the impact of publications. With the advent of internet and other technological advances, journals appear in electronic format, which has facilitated access and knowledge transfer. Consequently, there has been a need to access scientific and academic content without restrictions of any kind, which has increased the interaction of users in the web, generating new indicators, the almetrics. The publishing industry has created platforms to access its contents by subscription, integrating new applications that facilitate the retrieval of information and have also added open access content. In this scenario, technological surveillance is essential to make decisions about the information resources that make up the collection of a health institutio